{"id":317803,"date":"2025-08-04T18:24:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T18:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317803\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T18:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T18:24:22","slug":"the-people-from-greater-manchester-police-want-to-find-one-year-after-summer-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317803\/","title":{"rendered":"The people from Greater Manchester police want to find one year after summer riots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greater Manchester Police is working with four other police forces in the UK to track down the suspects<\/p>\n

19:00, 04 Aug 2025Updated 19:02, 04 Aug 2025<\/p>\n

\"ProtestorsProtestors, counter-protestors, and police in Bolton one year ago today(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

Greater Manchester Police has posted images of people it is trying to track down in relation to last summer’s riots.<\/p>\n

GMP is collaborating with four other police forces to track down people suspected of being involved in the unrest.<\/p>\n

The disorder spread across the UK in summer 2024 after the Southport murders, with false rumours circulating that the killer was a Muslim and an immigrant.<\/p>\n

Some 1,876 have been arrested so far in relation to the rioting, with 1,110 charged, but dozens of suspected rioters are still wanted by police one year one.<\/p>\n

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Now, GMP is working alongside police from Merseyside, Cleveland, Northumbria, and Avon and Somerset to track down around 40 suspects who are still at large.<\/p>\n

It comes as July saw anti-immigration rallies outside a hotel in Altrincham<\/a> as well as down in London, while last weekend saw hundreds of people aligned with far-right group Britain First march through central Manchester, met by hundreds of counter-protestors.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice want to speak to this person(Image: police.uk)<\/p>\n

Assistant Chief Constable Ian Drummond-Smith of the British Transport Police led the national response to investigating last year’s riots, and said: \u201cWe have a duty to facilitate protest \u2026 but what we saw last year, and in a few isolated cases this year, is where it\u2019s gone to criminality and to serious disorder.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn those cases what I think we can learn from last year is that justice will be swift, and I hope that that would be a deterrent to anyone thinking about engaging in serious disorder this year.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice want to speak to this person(Image: police.uk)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve made effective use of CCTV, bodyworn video, and we\u2019ve been able to bring a lot of people in front of the courts.\u201d<\/p>\n

The police chief also said officers are working \u201cvery hard\u201d to contain the \u201csmall pockets\u201d of disorder this year.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI think they\u2019ve been isolated because of a swift police response to them, and I think that\u2019s the key thing.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf we can respond to serious disorder swiftly, I think we can contain that and prevent it from spreading across the country, so that\u2019s what we\u2019re working very hard on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Outlining how things have changed since last year, Mr Drummond-Smith said: \u201cWe\u2019ve sharpened up our ability to mobilise quickly and move resources around the country so we can achieve that quicker.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last summer’s unrest, which saw hotels used to house asylum seekers targeted by mobs, was denounced by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at the time as “far-right thuggery”.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice want to speak to this person(Image: police.uk)<\/p>\n

In July 2025 the prime minster claimed he is “cracking down on migrants working illegally as food delivery riders”, saying that the government intends to share the location of hotels used to house asylum seekers with food delivery companies.<\/p>\n

Police are still working to trace some individuals believed to have been involved in the rioting, including appeals on social media media as well as in communities.<\/p>\n

This has included circulating images of suspects.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice want to speak to this person(Image: police.uk)<\/p>\n

Mr Drummond-Smith said: \u201cOne year on, we\u2019ve still got some people who we have got good images of and we haven\u2019t yet identified.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the key thing is having a good image of someone is one thing, knowing who they are is another. We\u2019re asking the public to have a look, and if they recognise anyone in those images, to let us know who they are and bring them to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The full list of people police would like to speak to can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greater Manchester Police is working with four other police forces in the UK to track down the suspects…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[279,748,188,393,4884,187,2465,115544,16,2688,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-317803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-bolton","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-greater-manchester-police","14":"tag-manchester","15":"tag-manchester-riots","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-uk-riots","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114971900051525950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}